ICAD FAQ

{You do not need to catch up, just start}

Index-Card-A-Day Challenge

3x5" index card, pitt pen, sakura gelly roll

THE OFFICIAL LIST OF FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Welcome to the 2012 Index-Card-A-Day Challenge

The ICAD Directory {everything related to ICAD}

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Go buy a pack of index cards. Cheap ones.

♥ draw ♥ doodle ♥ write ♥ collage ♥ paint ♥ cut ♥ haiku ♥ stamp ♥ stitch ♥

ONE INDEX card each day

JUNE + JULY

61 DAYS : 61 CARDS

♥ more info HERE  ♥ posts about index cards ♥ get your ICAD Badge ♥

Index-Card-A-Day Challenge

What do I do to start? The 2012 ICAD challenge runs June 1 to July 31, 2012. To start, create something on an index card [~ 3x5" lined card] every day through the end of the summer. NOTE: If you start after June 1 you DO NOT need to catch up, really, truly, seriously, the important thing to do is start. This is not a fancy schmancy challenge. You don't have to be on twitter or flickr or facebook or have a blog. Just index cards. 

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Simple materials push you to think in new ways.

Do we have to use index cards? Let me give you a few reasons to use 3x5" (or similar) index cards. You can experiment and be creative using a basic + wonderful office supply. Take advantage of the lines as part of your doodles, or ignore them, work on the back, dye the card with pomegranate juice or espresso.... I love watercolor paper and I understand the difference in paper quality.

That is part of the challenge. 

Prompts? Links to the weekly prompts are posted in the ICAD Directory.

Mediums? Anything you want. Stitch, paint, draw, stain, weave, even do origami folds with your index cards. 

Are there any restrictions? Nothing vulgar, nothing that would make folks say "ewwwwww" or cringe. Family friendly. Kids are welcome to join the challenge and yes, you can post your kids' cards on the flickr group, just tag them #kidart so we know.

Is there a fee to enter the challenge? It's free! Please consider a donation to the Daisy Yellow Tip Jar [you'll find the yellow link at the top of this page], all donations are immensely appreciated. Or you can buy a Zine to support my pen habit and the squarespace website fees. I appreciate linking to DY if you post about ICAD. We will have Linky Loves each week where you can post a link to your ICAD2 blog posts.

Are there hashtags or tags? Yes. On twitter or instagram just add #icad2 to your tweet. On flickr please add the tag icad2 to your photos.

How do you share your index cards? Share your work via your blog, Flickr, Instagram or Twitter. That gives us lots of ways to interact. I'm not on facebook.

How do you post a photo on twitter? To share via twitter, upload your photo to a site like Flickr and use that site to send the tweet (you'll have to link the account to your twitter account). Or post to your blog and tweet a link to that post. Upload a photo to Flickr and share it on twitter which basically means Flickr tweets a link back to the photo from your twitter account. Here's, a screen shot of what the tweet looks like when you send it via Flickr. The shortened tweet shows the link, and if you click to expand the tweet you see a mini version of the photo.

here's what the screen looks like when you click the little arrow to share on twitter (you have to set up your flickr account to talk to twitter first)

here's what a tweeted image looks like when you send it from Flickr

How do you add your index cards to the Daisy Yellow group on flickr?

Go to the Daisy Yellow group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/daisyyellow] and click "Request to Join" and I'll add you to the group. After you've been added, go to the photo you want to add and above the photo, click "actions" and then "add to/remove from group" and you'll see a drop-down box with the groups you belong to. Help motivate each other by commenting on other people's cards and favoriting the ones you especially like!